Credits for photos belong to Pervaiz Munir Alvi saheb. He took the photos on his recent trip to Pakistan and graciously shared them with me. The location is the Grand Trunk (now called highway N5) in Punjab.
While we have discussed Declaration of Emergency, Chronology of a Meltdown, mis-treatment of Imran Khan in recent past, one topic that got missed is what’s Benazir Bhutto up to these days? We would like to hear from our readers. Today, on my drive back from office, I was listening to Imran Khan‘s interview on National Public Radio (NPR). On a question of joining forces with Benazir, Imran Khan replied:
“We would love to join Benazir, except we don’t know whose side she is on today….There is a big mistrust of each other among opposition parties these days”.
I agree. What do you think? Above photos are in no way ATP’s endorsement to Benazir. They simply reflect a glimpse of our society. In addition to that, I personally enjoyed reading the slogan: “faisla zameer da….”
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What’s common between folks at the forefront of Pakistan and American politics is that both are using terrorism as an excuse to seize power, silence their opponents and trample the constitutional rights of their citizens. It doesn’t matter whether democracy is 200 years old or 20 years old. When you take a closer look, you’ll find a lot of similarities between the master and the monkey.
There is a strange habit among Pakistanis. We have made it a habit to criticize the politicians for every wrong committed under the sun, yet when the same or even more henious crimes are committed by the military, we simply look the other way as nothing happened. We compare politicians with the “angels” and we can’t find any simmilarity among the two, we try to sell the idea as if military dictators are better than the “discredited” politicians. But I think this farce is only done by the upper middle and rich classes, since they really hate democracy since it gives the “kami kamein”, the lower classes the voice, which is so hated by every other upper class.
As for Benazir’s quest for power, what else should she be fighting for? What else do people fight for in the world and what they have fought for through out history, if its not power? So its very stupid for me to say that “All Benazir wants is power”, blah blah blah. What when generals are power hungry and upset the entire applecart just to save their lucrative naukri as Musharraf did in 1999? Was he not power hungry or politicians are of the lesser gods?
Rafay Kashmiri,
Nothing better could be said than what you have said but the question is “the Raj, the Ray Bahadurs, The Newabs, The Khanzadays, The Mirs will they always keep us colonized, or will the Tipus amogst us ever rise, or rise and martyred,or are there no Tipus, I dont understand if our ancestors before the advent of Bristish had any shame , because after being colonized doesn’t look it has been passed into our blood…
Sher Bano,
I agree with you.We are very impatient as a nation don’t want to give democracy time to take root.I am amazed at educated people here advocating dictatorship.
I don’t think we will ever be able to separate masjid and state.But in a free and fair election people will always reject the
militant mullah.
As far BB is concerned
Ham ko unsay wafa ki hai ummeed
Jo NaheiN jante wafa kya hai (Ghalib)